Nicole Lafond
Deputy Editor at Talking Points Memo
Deputy editor @TPM, @Columbiajourn 2019, previously @news_gazette, whimpering sponge girl. Fling some dirt in my direction: [email protected]
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1 week ago |
talkingpointsmemo.com | Nicole Lafond
On Wednesday, the Supreme Court ruled that an anti-trans health care law out of Tennessee does not qualify as sex discrimination, thus doesn’t trigger heightened legal scrutiny. The decision, United States v. Skrmetti, is poorly reasoned, transparently reverse engineered to get the conservatives to the result they want.
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talkingpointsmemo.com | Nicole Lafond
In a Truth Social post over the weekend, President Trump suggested he was haphazardly undercutting a core element of his mythos: that he is anti-war. That assertion, as questionable as it might be on its face, has been embraced by some of his most outspoken supporters. And, so, the perceived shift brought to the fore a rift within MAGA that is now on full display, as the movement grapples with an age old (decade old) question. Does MAGA have values in isolation and/or independent of Donald Trump?
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talkingpointsmemo.com | Nicole Lafond
Local officials in Adams County, Pennsylvania are condemning a social media post shared by the county sheriff on Facebook that featured an image of a white pickup truck with red splatters across the front bumper, hood and tires. The image posted by Adams County Sheriff James Muller was captioned “The All New Dodge Ram Protester Edition.” The red splatters are very clearly supposed to be blood. I won’t even embed the post — which has since been deleted — because it is genuinely gross to look at.
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yahoo.com | Nicole Lafond
Local officials in Adams County, Pennsylvania are condemning a social media post shared by the county sheriff on Facebook that featured an image of a white pickup truck with red splatters across the front bumper, hood and tires. The image posted by Adams County Sheriff James Muller was captioned “The All New Dodge Ram Protester Edition.” The red splatters are very clearly supposed to be blood. I won’t even embed the post — which has since been deleted — because it is genuinely gross to look at.
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talkingpointsmemo.com | Nicole Lafond
You don’t have to squint to see it. In a lengthy Truth Social post Sunday that you have likely already seen by now, President Trump made clear that his Priority No. 1 Mass Deportation Scheme goes hand in hand with the retribution agenda: invading blue cities, stoking chaos and panic among residents and punishing the Democratic leadership of those jurisdictions.
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Regardless of how this all might come back to bite them in the midterms, the embrace of the package is illustrative of GOP leadership’s eagerness to strip the legislative branch of its own authority during Trump II: https://t.co/rCTOKEp6mw
It appears Musk’s beef with the spending bill runs deeper than his concerns that Congress shouldn’t authorize new federal spending when he’s trying to wipe out that concept. https://t.co/abWosfWdGs
Under our system of government, of course, Congress approves spending, not the White House. That has been upside-down since January, one of many violations of the separation of powers that came with Trump II. https://t.co/2Vo73nV2ZM